Sources
San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war
San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 1942. A large sign reading "I am an American" placed in the window of a store, at 13th and Franklin streets, on December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, will be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war

John Muir's "Shadow Lake"
John Lavery, The Cemetery, Etaples, 1919, oil on canvas, 59 x 90 cm, Imperial War Museum, London.
"Angel in the House" by Coventry Patmore
"Why I Want a Wife" by Judy Syfers
Dracula Chpt. 1
Scathing Critical response to Joan Didion

Websites

Learning to Read an Image
Comics in the Classroom resources
AP Central Language & Comp
dianahacker.com
Toulmin Method Overview
Outline of Rogerian Argument
American Rhetoric--source for great speeches

Resource Files

APLAC Vocab and Terms.doc
WHAT DOES WHAT- Techniques in Analyzing Texts.doc
Tone and Attitude- Broken Up.doc
AP Resource Packet.pdf
Vertical Alignment Materials.doc from another wkshp

Book List

Textbooks/Educational books
//A Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature// by Elizabeth Kantos
"They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings (Paperback)
"Mistakes Were Made" by Matt Groenig
"Mistakes Were Made" by Matt Groenig

Everyday Use (textbook by David Jolliffe and others- amazing at breaking down rhetoric)
Voice Lessons by Nancy Dean(REALLY good for the beginning of the year! reproducible handouts on Diction, Syntax, Imagery, Figurative Language, etc.)
Cliffs AP English Language and Composition, 3rd Edition
Barron's
Princeton's
Generative Grammar of the Sentence by Francis Christensen
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed (Hardcover) by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
CliffsQuickReview Writing: Grammar, Usage, and Style
NonFiction
Thank You for Arguing
  • This book is an entertaining way to look at argument, both past and present (Heinrich uses examples from Plato to The Simpson's to his own son/daughter!)
A Hope in the Unseen
  • Suskind pens a well-written and thought provoking book about a young black boy coming out of urban education to find himself lost in the world of Ivy League. The story is compelling, but the art of language used by the author is amazing. Can be used as a rhetorical strategies analysis OR argument analysis.
A Small Place by Jamaica Kinkaid
  • Sonja S. suggests an anticipatory set comparing the two different book covers